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since the annoying election, i decided to read, watch and listen to less and less news (i was a lifelong news junkie and weaning off the stuff ain't easy) and now i am listening to more and more music instead and feeling better in general.
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I dumped cable TV in favor of an internet connection in '97. Never looked back.
It's actually fun to watch a few TV commercials when we end up in a sports-bar, or at someone else's home. The bullshit is so obvious when you're not marinading in it.
It's not like "the news" was ever about "the news". It was always about mind-control of the population. The FCC made an enormous mistake by revoking the "Fairness Doctrine". Things got LOTS worse after the "Fairness Doctrine" was eliminated.
Don't get me started on "the weather", and the National Weather Guessing Service, which could be every bit as wrong with 1/3 the staff and 1/2 the funding.
he does the weather prophecy in every state?
Music, is the greatest Healer.
I'm also a news junkie, the results of the election didn't bother me as much as did the media solving the puzzle before they got a surprise outcome...Music always occupies the creative side of my brain, and news the other. I live in the St. Louis bi-state area (Illinois), and there's just more time for the media to devote to racially-motivated murders and cop killings now that the election doesn't dominate my viewing.
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To cope with current events (and that includes current events of any period of time), I'd recommend reading two things:
Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" to learn that the same crap happens over and over again and
Thornton Wilder, "The Skin of Our Teeth" to learn that it's all probably going to be okay in the long run.
-Bob
I'm with you. I found this a crazy interesting election season. I was compulsively looking at various points of view and the 538 blog. Now it's over and there are only going to be more huge arguments over the same subjects. Which there would have been had the other side won. Sure I'll give the big talker a chance, but I'm betting things will be much messier than he thought. Yes I've lost a lot of interest in news.
SO called news, reeling out bad stuff.. And if not local, then someplce.. as long as it is bad, or likely to cause stress.
I have no idea why that sort of crap has ruled what we call 'news'?
are loosing viewers and eyeballs to alternative outlets....
Notice that the first offensive against alternative outlets is to question their accuracy, which is another way of questioning their legitimacy. If the outlets are not "legitimate" then they can be marginalized and silenced.
However it is becoming more difficult to silence alternative outlets because many of them are reporting accurate news more quickly than traditional outlets.
"Notice that the first offensive against alternative outlets is to question their accuracy, which is another way of questioning their legitimacy. If the outlets are not "legitimate" then they can be marginalized and silenced."
Seems to me that's exactly what "alternative" media attempts to do regarding "mainstream" news media, and is a big part of Trump's strategy.
Exactly which alternative news outlets do you choose to get your news from?
The Real News Network looks excellent to me. Another one that looks good so far is Blacklisted News. Almost all "news" sources seem to be a combo of news and opinion. The two mentioned seem to care about accuracy. There is Mother Jones and The Nation. T456
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UDYVmIMVA8
Yo BH, that was awesome. An excellent, concise takedown of the controlled media. I have been looking for more sources of real news. I'll keep an eye out for these guys in the future. I really loved how they brought up the issue of the corporate news screaming about all the fake news out there as a diversion tactic. Two very sharp kids. Thanks, Tweaker456
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
You do.
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
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And actually I do not really care who is the so called arbiter of what is real vs fake. Each person usually decides if it is crap or gold.
My point is it all is crap in the sense that 'news' is now designed to arouse anxiety, and that is it's main function.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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...same for me.
I've been a political junkie since I was in college during the Viet Nam War but now I can't take as much anymore - everything is turned upside down.
Music takes me to a happier place.
Lessening my news consumption. Worrying less about problems I can have no effect on.
I have to deal with some issues myself regarding my psyche, and I'll tell you a healthy mind is the first thing you need. I've been chugging along however pretty well, but I still see a psychiatrist.About a decade ago my psychiatrist recommended to stop reading news especially in the mornings (on the phone or newspaper), as I told him I would become enraged from reading the news and the resulting high blood pressure and stress on my mind and body was getting problematic for my mental and physical health.
I sometimes browse news at google's site but it is all really designed to make one either very angry or to condition the mind with riddles with no answer except the desired outcome.
I've been listening to about 2 albums in full from beginning to end every day after work, and on the weekends when I am not working a good 6 to 8 albums between saturday and sunday. I also don't own a television.
good for you :) happy to see you rid your system of that toxic nonsense.
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It is funny, while we have one, my kids never watch it and it is rarely on. A big difference versus growing up in the 70's.
I think the 60s and 70s were big into subliminal messaging on television.
not saying it isn't going on here, I keep buying audio equipment for some reason after vising this site and reading the rants ;)
I crave pizza every day, for breakfast lunch and dinner. I crave pizza every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. I crave pizza every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. I crave...
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
must have been a glitch in the matrix, I had Bok Choy last night :)
Must have been hungry for pizza an hour later.
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
I also enjoy music most when committed to listening to full albums, rather than constructing playlists of cuts on my computer feed. It is so much more immersive an experience, and connects me back to my '70's start in audio.
gave up TV News in the 90's. That was easy! Had to ween myself from the paper.
When I need to see what "news" is going on (and "news" has become a VERY loose term)
the Internet gives the basics needed. Otherwise it's a shit storm of worry, BAD NEWS and
TROUBLE meant to keep us off balance and discombobulated.
Not only do I not miss being addicted to the "news", leaving it behind makes for a better mindset
which translates to more satisfying listening.
Good on Ya!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
..so much of what is called news on the internet is made up....even Zuckerberg is about to clamp down on all the lies.
but it's more easy and efficient to hone in on "real" news and cut through the fake news
IF you know where to go, and the Internet provides the path(s).
It's the difference between grabbing the Washington Post or USA Today off the news stand.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Actually I don't watch TV or listen to the radio and I am pretty sure I know more about what is going to happen than those who do. In fact a few years ago a survey found Fox News viewers less informed than those who watched o news at all. My sources are worldwide and very diverse. For example people bitch about RT being Putin's mouthpiece, well that may be so but prove them wrong. Try it.
But I think the feeling better is also attributable to not being exposed to the professional voice. And the noding the anchors throw each other when they speak. And what's more, Ma has taken to closed caption, not just because of being hard of hearing, but because of the damn noise. Sound effects meant for a six channel system. Can't understand the dialog but when a car explodes the cops come. What's more people get their reality from fiction. They think cars explode easily and that is simply not true. They think you can shoot at the gas tank in a high speed chance and blow the car up. Try it sometime. Not that I have but I know something of engineering and a few other things. I'll throw a lit cigarette into a pail of gasoline, about a 10 % chance is catches on fire and ZERO chance of it blowing up. If there's an explosion is is due to the fumes in the air, not what's in the pail.
Also, I have personally known some people who made the news and they got that wrong. So in some cases I think that irritation in your head watching TV is because your brain is destroying enough of itself to process the illogical information. Remember the media went to court in the US to gain the right to outright lie with impunity. The courts in other countries don't seem to be so eager to bestow that on them. I wonder why... I know, socialised medicine, they don't want to pay for the painkillers as the viewers' brains destroy themselves so they can "believe".
But I am to the point of no radio, I DO have a tuner in the garage/Mancave but that is it. Time to make another CD for out there but I don't have decent heat and with winter coming it is not going to be used much. So there is no rush. (Yeah, put some Rush on the next one)
I can't stand the radio, I can't stand the new movies and TV shows. Media has abandoned me. Next time I decide I want to hear music it is likely to be older than me.
Enough ranting.
HA, I just thought of something. Remember on radio news they used to have the sound of a teletype or whatever in the background ? chig chig chig chig ?
RT has become much more subtle than it used to be. It's getting more and more difficult to tell it's a propaganda device. Propaganda at its best is very subtle.
I cannot tell what it is.
Funny thing is: if the Russians are so awful why do we depend on them for our space program?
I love the asymmetry of fakepolitic - how would the US react if Russia was to place some kind of defense force in Mexico? Yet, we have this cozy relationship with Ukraine that they find threatening. All the while we, and Europe, have nothing with which to force them to do anything. Oh, I forgot, the UK placed one hundred soldiers on the Polish border. That'll scare 'em!
It is crazy. More Eastasia against Oceania? Phony wars, phony conflicts?
I think Orwell was more right than he ever dreamed he was.
A book written as a warning has become a handbook.
Any war with Mexico or its Russion proxies would be over in a matter of days. Even with the element of surprise there is no real advantage to the US in conducting short wars.
"Funny thing is: if the Russians are so awful why do we depend on them for our space program?"Excellent question!
Discontinuing the space shuttle before having a replacement vehicle ready to go was one of Obama's biggest blunders. Our manned missions, the International Space Station and our astronauts currently on the ISS are totally screwed if the Russians decide to play hardball.
:)
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Bush announced it's ending Jan 14,2004. It was to end in 2010. T456
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
Not to mention tubes.
Rick,
Orwell wasn't trying to warn the future. The original title was 1948, the publisher balked, and we got 1984.
"I know, socialised medicine, they don't want to pay for the painkillers as the viewers' brains destroy themselves so they can "believe"." I must say JURB that is a fascinating theory. I quite like it. Gave up TV in 1999. I've been addicted to the news on the net to see if the sun hasn't novad yet. Good reminder. Radio has also been pretty much destroyed for two or three years. Intolerable. Happy listening. T456
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
I am also careful about what music I subject myself to, that can be toxic as well.
cheers!
Lots of recent releases to listen to:
Noah Wall: Down Home Blues
Norah Jones: Day Breaks
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions: Until the Hunter
Katie Melua: In Winter
Good stuff.
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